The Biblical story of the creation
of the world's languages in Genesis, chapter 11:
1 AND THE WHOLE EARTH was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found
a plain in the land of
Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them
thoroughly. And
they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may
reach unto heaven;
and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of
the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children
of men
builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language;
and this
they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they
have imagined
to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may
not understand
one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the
earth: and they left
off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did
there confound the
language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad
upon the face
of all the earth.
Source: The King James Bible
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